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Title: Islam and the Myth of Confrontation: Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Fred Halliday ISBN: 1-86064-868-1 Publisher: I.B. Tauris Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Misses the point
Comment: Halliday argues that there is no 'one' Islam but doesn't address the factors that necessitate the clash of civilisations.
Islam cannot happily exist in a secular framework as it has its own framework which is mutually exclusive.
Huntingdon's initial prediction of a clash was shallow but ultimately correct and Halliday's cultural discussion ignores the essence of the debate.
Rating: 1
Summary: Ooops
Comment: Given recent events, Freddy must be looking for work. Institutions as reputable as the LSE tend to demand that their faculty keep at least marginally in touch with the real world.
In seriousness, this book is poorly written, apologetic tripe. Those seriously interested in ME criticism should consult Ajami or Lewis, not hack journalists like Halliday (or Thomas Friedman, for that matter).
Rating: 4
Summary: islam and politics
Comment: Over the last two decades, Islamic revivalism in the Muslim world has been the subject of heated debates among academicians and policy makers. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Islam has often been perceived as a world-wide menace and the major threat to the West. Some scholars have directed attention to a large scale confrontation between Islam and the West that they call a "clash of civilization." Fred Halliday sets out to reject such interpretations. He provides an alternative, critical but cautious reassessment.
Halliday asserts that the Islamic threat to the West is propagated from two contradictory sides--from the West that seeks to turn the Muslim world into another enemy, and from the camp of those within the Islamic countries who advocate contadiction with the Western world in order to remain in power. Halliday contends that the idea of a prennial conflict with West is not just an invention of European or American demagogues. "As communism collapsed, and with it the range of parties and movements in the Third World that associated with it, some in the Islamic world appeared to confirm Western prejudices by affirming that they would indeed replace Bolshevism as the major challenge to the West, and would do so more effectively because their challenge was inspired by God."
"Isam and the Myth of Confrontation" is a scholarly contribution and extremely insightful book that sheds new light on a very complex issues involving the Middle East. General readers as well as experts on the Midlle East are certain to be enlightened by this excellent book.
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Title: Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society by Nicholas J. Wheeler ISBN: 0199253102 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Kant: Political Writings by Immanuel Kant, H. S. Reiss, H. B. Nisbet ISBN: 0521398371 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 25 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: One World: The Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer ISBN: 0300096860 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn, Michael Frayn ISBN: 0385720793 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations by Michael Walzer ISBN: 0465037054 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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